4/24/24
Just after midnight ;
the day’s duolingo? ✓
the day’s pushups? ✓
eat a handful of honey roasted peanuts
drink a can of iced tea and a glass of water
Good start.
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Lately I can’t be bothered to do anything more than a few strict pushups per set.
In the past week or two it’s been a handful of sets of 5 reps most days, occasionally a set of 7 or 8, once a set of 25.
Instinctively I feel the strict 5s, well within my limit (of doing pushups in the high 280lbs bodyweight – realizing with last night’s pushups (ten minutes earlier lol) that though powerlifters exist, this is not the normal nearly 300lb human experience)) are what best transfers to the bottoms up pressing, where the reps vary from failures and singles with the 40kg to some high reps with 16kg bup and buc&p.
With the 16kg I blend the bottoms up work with juggling – it has my lats pretty activated round the clock, and my triceps have had a deep soreness lately.
Each day I get outside, practice dribbling the soccer ball as an enjoyable skill development challenge, and mostly use the light 16kg kettlebell for something freestyle with at least a little overhead pressing incorporated.
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Dietarily milk consumption is down at around a quart a day, iced tea is my main choice of fluid at an average of three tall cans a day, and whatever milk I’m not drinking definitely had been replaced by more water.
Water may be more ounces drank than iced tea, I’m not keeping exact track, I’m simply conscious of my drinking more glasses each day lately.
Food wise?
It can be summed up in a few things ; a borderline carnivore thing, mostly sausages, half the time with fried onion, sometimes with cheese, occasionally on bread, an occasional frozen pizza or chocolate for dessert, and a snack most days of honey roasted peanuts.
No one would write this diet.
I feel like in the next few months I’ll have visible abs.
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Don’t attempt to trim your beard EVER dude (lol- you’ll improve the skill), left a small amount on the chin, will take three weeks to be a short beard again.
Spring reset.
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Slept long and deep, was oddly exhausted from yesterday.
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Ten minutes of soccer ball, 9ct was the best – stopped as it started to rain.
Guess I’ll get wet when lifting soon.
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A little extra soccer ball a bit later, and the lift, 12ct.
No 15/16ct – I set a timer for just over five minutes just after I’d finished the lift.
About an hour ten all in all between soccer ball, the entire lift (often “resting” with soccer ball), and the soccer ball to end.
Fun. Very unstructured.
I SHOULD actually deload.
Note : hilarious weather – the past two hours has varied every five to ten minutes between sunny, downpour, and drizzle at random – sunny when I did the soccer ball, a rest during the downpour, then sun and a light rain when I did more soccer ball and lifted.
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12oz sausage, (two 3oz links of two kinds), in buns, cheese in two if four buns, instant mashed potatoes and some eggs in the grease
Maybe an hour after dinner ;
Another lift!
BUP 16kg
10×10/side in 18:00
did left, right, rested, once (sets 5&6) did them back to back, otherwise left, right, rest – pretty easily under twenty minutes, and I’ll be able to train the progression from 16-32 by 2kg jumps in days when the adjustable bell arrives.
Yep, I ordered an adjustable competition kettlebell.
I’m very excited about the bottoms up and juggling playful training to come.
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:20/side holds on the hg150 reverse gripper
:20/side holds on the hg150 gripper
continue laissez faire gtg in these alongside the kettlebell, they can only help the bottoms up grip, and too can be mixed in as a two hand variant – a gripper and a bell (which I have done before)
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Clean Shaven :
late night took that little chin goatee thing off, beard is truly resetting – shrugs, now I see my pudgy face (which is why many heavy guys have beards)
Persistence & Tenacity